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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Oglala (ARG 1)

ARG-1 call sign:Nan - Peter - Xray - Uncle

ex-Oglala (CM 4)

Call sign:Nan - Easy - Peter - Jig

ex-Shawmut (CM 4)ex-Shawmut (ID 1255)

Call sign (1919):George - Rush - Jig - Love

ex-Massachusetts (ID 1255)

Aroostook Class Minelayer:

Built in 1907 as Massachusetts by William Cramp and Sons Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA

USS Yacona (SP-617) at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa December 1917, painted in pattern camouflage.
Yacht Isabel, then being prepared for service as USS Isabel (SP-521), is on the other side of the pier from Yacona. Steamers in the background are Aroostook (ID 1256), formerly S.S. Bunker Hill and Massachusetts, which became USS Shawmut (ID 1255).U.S. Navy photo NH 102576

Naval Historical Center

USS Shawmut (ID 1255)

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Undated post card

Tommy Trampp

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At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 4 June 1918, following conversion to a mine layer. Her sister ship, USS Aroostook (ID 1256), is in the background.Naval Historical Center photo NH 41959

Robert Hurst

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Ship's officers and men posed on board at Inverness, Scotland, in September 1918, after having subscribed 100% on the first day of the Fourth Liberty Loan drive.From the collection of Eugene J. GrowU.S. Navy photo NH 50492

Naval Historical Center

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U.S. Navy Mine Layers steaming in line abreast during the laying of the North Sea mine barrage, September 1918. Analysis of camouflage patterns indicates that these ships are (from front to rear): USS Roanoke (ID 1695); USS Housatonic (ID 1697); USS Shawmut (ID 1255); USS Canandaigua (ID 1694); USS Canonicus (ID 1696); with USS Quinnebaug (ID 1687) and USS Saranac(ID 1702) in the left and right center distance. A four-stack British cruiser is in the left distance.U.S. Navy photo NH 61101

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Operating at sea in October 1918, during the laying of the North Sea mine barrage. The ship is painted in a disruptive camouflage scheme.U.S. Navy Photo NH 42398

USS Mahan (DM 7) still wearing her DD hull number and Shawmut in Cuba in 1919-1920. Both have Curtiss H-16 flying boats alongsidePhoto DD 102-Shawmut Cuba 1920 from collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum

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At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 1920. A Curtiss N-9 aircraft (Bureau No. A2636) is on the water by her stern and another is resting on her after deck. A "Sea Sled" and motor launch are tied up along her starboard side.Courtesy U.S. Naval Institute photo collectionU.S. Navy photo NH 78226

Naval Historical Center

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c. 1920U.S. Navy photo from the March 1969 edition of All Hands magazine

Joe Radigan

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In the Caribbean area, April 1924.U.S. Navy photo NH 42399

Naval Historical Center

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c. 1924S-16 (SS-121) & next to her is possibly the S-50 (SS-161) with another unknown S-boat and four unidentified R-boats alongside their tender, Shawmut probably in the Panama Canal area.National Archives photo 80-G-1024884

In the Hudson River, New York, with YO-5 alongside, 2 May 1927U.S. Navy photo NH 43613

Naval Historical Center

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USS Holland (AS-3) with submarines alongside at San Diego, c. 1927--USS Langley (CV-1) appears at North Island with Shawmut (CM-4) astern of the carrier. The nearest destroyer on the left is USS Edsall (DD 219).U.S. Navy photo NR&L (Mod) 19972

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

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4 January 1927Photo caption: "Photo shows USS Oglala which will proceed to Hampton Roads where she will embark about 425 men and 20 officers and sail with them to the scene of trouble in Nicaragua. The other battalion of Marines will be carried on the USS Argonne from San Diego."International Newsreel photo

Tommy Trampp

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9 January 1928Hampton Roads, VAU.S. Marines loading boxes of cartridges on Oglala which is about to leave for the fighting zone in NicaraguaInternational Newsreel photo

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10 January 1928Hampton Roads, VAU.S. Marines of the 11th Regiment boarding Oglala at the Naval Base for service in NicaraguaInternational Newsreel photo 415995

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c. 1929U.S. Navy photo from the February 1969 edition of All Hands magazine

Joe Radigan

USS Oglala (CM 4)

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Circa late 1920s, soon after she was refitted with new boilers and a single smokestack. Note pine trees suspended from her jack staff and foremast yards. USS Overton (DD-239) is among the destroyers visible in the left background.U.S. Navy photo NH 60281

Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Aerial view, looking west, with the supply depot in upper center, 13 October 1941. Part of the Submarine Base is at lower left; the Navy Yard is in the upper left; and Ford Island is in the top right. USS Holland is at left, at the Submarine Base. Alongside her are submarines Sturgeon (SS-187), Spearfish (SS-190), Saury (SS-189), Seal (SS-183) and Sargo (SS-188). USS Niagara (PG-52) is alongside the wharf, ahead of Holland. Ships docked at the supply depot, upper center, are Oglala and the S.S. Maui. Among the ships at the piers in the extreme upper left are USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS San Francisco (CA-38) and USS Antares (AG-10). The two battleships moored by Ford Island, in upper right, are (left) USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and (right) USS Arizona (BB-39).National Archives photo 80-G-451131

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7 December 1941Position of Oglala and other ships at Pearl Harbor.Map courtesy of National Geographic Book Division

Joe Radigan

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MINE LAYER LOST AT PEARL HARBOR

The Oglala a 4,200-ton minelayer, was one of the ships destroyed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, Navy Secretary Frank Knox revealed today. Once a passanger vessel on the Fall River Line, the Oglala was converted into a minelayer during the World War.Associated Press Wirephoto 15 December 1941

Original photo: Robert HurstReplacement photo: Tommy Trampp

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At the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, following completion of salvage and initial repairs, circa December 1942. Oglala left Pearl Harbor for the west coast 23 December of that yearU.S. Navy photo NH 61896

CAPT William Daniel Leahy, USN - USNA Class of 1897Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) and three Navy Distinguished Service Medals - Served as Chief of Staff to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942 - 1945)Attained the rank of Fleet Admiral